Tieline i-Mix Debuts Australia’s Newest Super 14 Rugby Team

Perth - (March 2006) -A record crowd of over 38,000
rugby fans turned up to Subiaco Oval to support the debut
performance of The Western Force, Australia's newest Super 14
Series team.

A sea of blue team caps and shirts replaced the usual sight
of Subiaco's gold and blue West Coast Eagles colours proving that
WA's starving rugby fans have been waiting for the chance to attach
their loyalty to a local team.

Wisdom Sports Media (WSM), a remote sports broadcasting
specialist won the rights from News Limited and elected to
broadcast the event over 90.5 Sports FM and bring the bone crushing
excitement of the first ever World Super 14 Series game to the
Australian airwaves.

Wisdom Sports - which have been in professional sports
commentary since 2002 and called over 125 WA football league games
plus the entire Perth Glory Soccer season chose the Tieline i-Mix
to broadcast the Super 14 Western Force game series."

"We had three top commentators Leon Ruri, Ashley Morrison and
Andy Aitken plus an effects mic and we were looking for a device
which could combine our audio mixing and codec requirements into a
single box," said Russell Dower, Proprieter of WSM.

Dower continued: "When I looked at the i-Mix I knew it was
perfect for the job. In the past we used an array of mixing
equipment plugged into other codecs. For this event, all we had was
three headsets, one effects mic, one telephone line and a Tieline
i-MIx codec. We even had plenty of room to spread out the call
sheets, drinks and snacks for a change."

The game started at 7:05 p.m. and normally they have to get
there early for the setup, but with the i-Mix, there was almost
nothing to do. They arrived an hour before the gig and began the
setup.

First they connected Leon, Ashley and Andy's headsets to inputs
1,2 and 3 and then hung the effects mic from input 5 out of the
commentators box window, about 10 feet above the crowd.

"I like the fact the codec has channel on/off buttons in case
someone needs to cough," said Dower. "Although we didn't use it at
the time I also liked the fact the guys back in the studio could
remote control our audio inputs if they felt the mics were getting
too hot or cold."

Next they dialed back to the studio and connected first time at
19.2kbps with a line quality of 78%. They then checked the audio
send and return paths.

"It sounded great and we were ready to go. There is something
gratifying about plugging into an ordinary telephone line and
delivering the kind of audio quality we can normally only get over
an ISDN line," said Dower. "The 3 hour broadcast connection was
flawless and sounded great."

Dower was a big fan of the i-Mix intelligent gain control which
allows the commentators to stop worrying about their levels and get
on with having some fun.

"Rugby is a game of many short stops and starts. As soon as the
ball gets into play there is a few seconds of excitement before
around 500 kilos of the opposing team stomps all over the
attacker," said Dower. "Audio levels rise and fall quickly and a
single satisfactory gain setting without automatic gain control is
almost impossible to find."

When the Western Force finally crossed the touchdown line for
the first time, Leon and the fans almost lifted the roof off the
commentator's box. Dower watched the PPM LEDs on the i-Mix shoot
into red and stay there for close to 10 seconds which tells us that
the mics were being pushed too hard, but as Dower listened to the
off-air feed, it was clear the IGC had cut in and smoothed off the
gain attack before the audio could peak into distortion.

Ted Walker from Fremantle FM who is assisting with the WSM
coverage of the Rugby said, "The i-Mix really is the sportscasters
dream box and the audio quality was excellent. We've used the i-Mix
a great deal and we like the fact it is small enough to carry the
entire remote kit inside a plane. It's so small, light and easy to
carry it can fit it in an overhead bin on the aircraft".

WSM are planning to use the optional ISDN module for away games
in New Zealand and South Africa and connect the i-Mix G3 to Telos
and Musicam codecs using G.722 to call the games.

For more information about Wisdom Sport Media, please see
www.wisdomsportsmedia.com

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fact, Tieline derives its name from the popularity of its
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